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You don't call a person diseased because they fail to respond to a cure: you call them diseased because they show certain symptoms.
This disease is widespread in the community, and has even been shown to cross the layman-scientist barrier.
Fair point, but I feel like you've dodged the substance of my post. Why have you chosen to not submit a paper on this subject so that the community's mind can be changed (assuming you have/are not).
What makes you think I haven't?
As far as "official" academic publishing is concerned, I've been in touch with the editors of IEEE Software's "Voice of Evidence" column for about a year now, though on an earlier topic - the so-called "10x programmers" studies. The response was positive - i.e. "yes, we're interested in publishing this". So far, however, we haven't managed to hash out a publication schedule.
You've said so yourself, I'm making these observations publicly - though on a self-published basis as far as the book is concerned. I'm not sure what more would be accomplished by submitting a publication - but I'm certainly not opposed to that.
It's a lot more difficult, as has been noted previously on Less Wrong, to publish "negative" results in academic fora than to publish "positive" ones - one of the failures of science-in-general, not unique to software engineering.
Then any objection withdrawn!
I commend you for pushing this, and Software is a decently high-impact venue.
Um. It might have been intentional, in which case disregard this, but Unfortunate Implication warning: laymen have brains too.